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In current version of BotBanish these tables are not needed to be accessed directly. The changes are made in BotBanish. From the SMF main menu, go to BotBanish->Blacklist and/or BotBanish->Whitelist to change add/remove/modify Domain, Spiders and IP's that can access the system.

In current versions the feature to change languages has been improved. From the SMF main menu, go to BotBanish->Settings->Select Language to change the language for BotBanish. The language change will be immediate for BotBanish only.

BotBanish is capable of blocking whole countries from accessing your site. In the SMF main menu go to BotBanish->Blacklists->Countries, place a check mark on the row of the country to block and click on "Update Blacklist Country" and a 1 will appear in the activate column. To unblock place a check mark on the row that has a 1 in the active column then click "Update Blacklist Country" and the block will be reversed and a 0 will appear in the active column.

Once this is done BotBanish will check the country codes and if it finds an IP address from any country that has been selected active, BotBanish will eject this user from the system.

NOTE: This feature is only available starting in version 4.1.00

This is an example of an Error message in WordPress.
BotBanish will stop these types of attacks.

16 failed login attempts (4 lockout(s)) from IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
Last user attempted: admin
IP was blocked for 24 hours

BotBanish will stop brute force attacks or repeated login attempts.

If you get the error "we couldn't update the system reserved partition". This error occurs when attempting to install or upgrade Windows 11 over Windows 10. This problem can also occur when you can't complete a Windows 10/11 Update and it keeps installing and uninstalling an update. This error is a frustrating one, it does have an answer though and take a bit of doing to get this resolved.

This answer from Microsoft will help but may not get you out of trouble. You may need to delete more than the Fonts folder to get thru this. Resizing the partition would help but I have found that no software will resize this SRP partition at least on a Dell computer, so deleting files or moving these files to another drive seem to be only options. On a Dell you will need to delete the BIOS recovery files in the "EFI/dell/bios/recovery" folder to make enough room. these files are rather large and may give you enough room to complete your upgrade to Windows 11 or your Windows Update in Windows 10. you may move these large files back to their original location but you might run into the same problem again down the road. But at least this time you know how to solve the issue.

If you get a email or phone call from someone stating that your computer is infected and you need to call some number, DON'T DO IT!!! They will ask for remote access to your computer to convince you to pay them for doing nothing. Worse, they may infect your computer so that you NEED to pay them.

NO legitimate company will call you to tell you your computer is infected. They may say they are from Microsoft but don't believe them! Best idea is to not contact them or hang up and block the number.